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Published 2026-10-22
Six places a pay app spreadsheet stops adding up
The bottom line can look right while one cell underneath has changed. These are the six places I look first, and the question I send back for each.
Published 2026-10-22
What software, or an AI, misreads in a construction spreadsheet
Some numbers in an Excel file are not what they seem to the software reading it. These are five I have run into, and what a careful reader should say instead of guessing.
Published 2026-09-27
60% complete: what does that tell me about the next drawdown?
I need the calculation behind the percentage, the day it describes, and the document that connects it to the funding terms.
Published 2026-09-23
One progress payment, seven different numbers
They are not seven stages of one progress bar. They are seven separate questions, settled by different people, from different documents, on different days.